attack of the mutant vowels
Aug. 7th, 2008 08:50 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
I just got back to the USA from teaching English in Novgorod and my students want to talk to me on icq. This is wonderful, but sometimes when they type Russian, I get a stream of crud that looks like this:
ëó÷øå âñåõ
The same sort of thing happens when I try to import, for instance, my Наутилус Помпилиус tracks onto iTunes. For another example, Тополиный Пух by Иванушкий International becomes:
Òîïîëèíûé ïóõ by Èâàíóøêè International
I know this is about text coding, but I don't know much about that kind of thing. Could one of you generous people help me?
ëó÷øå âñåõ
The same sort of thing happens when I try to import, for instance, my Наутилус Помпилиус tracks onto iTunes. For another example, Тополиный Пух by Иванушкий International becomes:
Òîïîëèíûé ïóõ by Èâàíóøêè International
I know this is about text coding, but I don't know much about that kind of thing. Could one of you generous people help me?